Chuck Yeager Quotes

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I'd be an underwater salvager. I've always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That's why acting is so random for me!

Houston, we've had a problem.

I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career.

In thinking back to when we had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outside the window. We were in the clouds; I'm pretty sure we got hit by lightning.

I was either going to be an actor, a Naval aviator, or a pediatric surgeon. Those were the three things that I wanted to do.

That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can't just stop the show and say, 'Oh, Jeff's got a guitar problem.'

Gear not working on a live show - that is rough.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.

No, I always wanted to be a singer. It was kind of funny that I took this road, started acting, then-almost ten years later-in Wayne's World people finally got to see me sing. And everyone thought it was dubbed in.

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.

Theatrically, you are aware of every part of you in acting; every component of your surroundings, including the clothes you wear. Eh...in voiceover, shorts and a t-shirt and badaboom...done.

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y'know.

So many things could go wrong, on any film. I've been out in L.A. for eight years and I've been acting professionally for a long time, and you realize that you have to prepare and work hard, but you never know what could go wrong.